"When we exported 5,000 pages of PGP source code in a book through MIT Press in the 90s, we ran into some issues.
It turns out it's very hard to scan C source code via OCR. So what did we do? We wrote software that was specifically designed for OCR scanning of C source code and published it at the beginning of the book as a bootstrapping mechanism.
It was shortly after this point that I received word that the intelligence agencies had realized they had lost."
- Phil Zimmermann
Jameson Lopp
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